Search Results for: Civil War

Northern Journalism in the Promotion of the Lost Cause

March 26, 2024March 27, 2024 Marvin Walker #BooksArchivesMonuments, antiblackness, Black Newspapers, Black Reconstruction, Jim Crow

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” Since the age of

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The Problem with Baltimore

March 22, 2024March 21, 2024 Anthony Smooth police brutality, racism, slavery, urban history

In 2015, Harvard economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren did a study on how the socioeconomic conditions of the neighborhoods

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A Black Woman’s Story of Sacrifice and Survival

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Alexis Cathcart abolition, Black women

On January 4, 1861−one week before Alabama officially seceded from the Union−a 65-year-old freed Black woman named Sally Johnson, petitioned

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Online Forum–The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me

March 18, 2024March 15, 2024 AAIHS Editors #BooksArchivesMonuments, Black History, books, forum

March 19, 2024 to March 28, 2024  Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

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The Life of Betsey Stockton

February 20, 2024February 8, 2024 Christopher D. E. Willoughby Black women, book review, religion, slavery

Gregory Nobles’s new book, The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, is a tour de force.

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